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Neubau des Interdisziplinären Zentrums für Nanostrukturierte Filme der FAU eingeweiht Rund 250 Forscherinnen und Forscher sowie Doktorandinnen und Doktoranden haben ein neues Domizil gefunden: das Interdisziplinäre Zentrum für Nanostrukturierte Filme (IZNF) der Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlan... Continue

The special symposium of “Correlative and in situ Microscopy in Materials Research”, held during 1-4.April as part of the DPG2019 (annual meeting of German Physical Society)  in Regensburg, was a great success. The four-day symposium was co-organized by EAM Member Prof. Dr. Erdmann Spiecker and D... Continue

Special culture of cooperation EAM Member Prof. Dr. Jörg Libuda has been head of the new Chair of Interface Research and Catalysis at the Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy since February 2019. However, Libuda, who is originally from Bochum, is not new to FAU as he has been working at the Univers... Continue

For the first time two in one For the investigation of nanoparticles especially X-ray and neutron beams are used. FAU researchers around EAM Member Prof. Tobias Unruh, Institute for Crystallography and Structural Physics, have designed a special x-ray machine capable of studying nanoparticles in ... Continue

From the 29th of July to 1st of August 2019 the Institute for Crystallography and Structural Physics (ICSP) will host the 5th CENEM Summer School for X-ray Scattering. The school will provide a perfect opportunity to get a detailed insight into theory and practice of several modern scattering method... Continue

On March 4-8, 2019 collaborative researchers from Germany, Austria and Belgium came to Erlangen for the Second School on Atom Probe Tomography (APT). The school was led and organized by EAM Prof. Peter Felfer and Dr. Chandra Macauley of Institute 1: General Materials Properties (WW1) of the Material... Continue

In future, it could be possible to remove oil spills on the surface of the ocean by using magnets Oil spills in the sea cause long-run damages to the oceans, as they are difficult, if not impossible, to remove. An interdisciplinary research group led by EAM Member Prof. Marcus Halik has developed... Continue

The 4th International Symposium on Atomistic and Multiscale Modeling of Mechanics and Multiphysics of Materials (ISAM4) will take place from August 5 - 8, 2019 at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg. This symposium aims at bringing together experts and early stage researchers from multiple disciplines to netwo... Continue

EAM member Prof. Dr. Jörg Libuda accepted the offer for a full professorship (W3) at the newly established Chair of Interface Research and Catalysis. Prof. Libuda has been Professor of Physical Chemistry (W2) at the Chair of Physical Chemistry II since 2005. Besides other awards and commitments, he ... Continue

The EAM administration has moved from the former office in Nägelsbachstr. 49b in Erlangen into the new IZNF Building in Cauerstr. 3 at the South Campus in Erlangen. The new phone and room numbers of the administration staff are published on our EAM Homepage. Our new address is: Cluster of Excell... Continue